Re: [ALSC-Forum] Draft report - statistics and "fraud"

[Mike Roberts]

At 0:16 +0900 8/29/01, Adam PEAKE wrote:
>ALSC, congratulations on a thought provoking draft. An enjoyable and
>informative read. 
>
>One quick comment, and I apologize for beginning with a negative.  I was
>disappointed to see that you seem to have picked up on a very
>regrettable interpretation of 2000 election statistics and wrote "at the
>conclusion of registration 33,043 registrations, or 18.7%, were removed
>from the valid records database because of real or suspected fraud."
>
>As your draft explains, "9,721 pin letters were returned (as of August
>19, 2001), 92.2% of which had been sent to countries in the Asia region
>... raises questions about the efficacy of postal mail" These 9,721 are
>included in the 33,043 registrations you suggest may be fraudulent.
>Since when was "return to sender" and indication of fraud?

Adam - this part of your note is incorrect.  No one had a pin letter 
mailed to them if they were in a suspected fraud status.  Those 9,721 
individuals, and others who didn't get their letters but ICANN did 
not get them returned, are part of the "registered but did not 
activate" group, which totaled
67,230 persons.  (143,806 - 76,183).

- Mike
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